Opinion | Russian Memes Didn’t Steal the Election

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Opinion: Being influenced by foreign propaganda doesn’t cost citizens their right to vote, writes CrispinSartwell

‘After the election, the President expressed concerns to advisors that reports of Russia’s election interference might lead the public to question the legitimacy of his election,” says the Mueller report. Some members of the public did. “The legitimacy of our elections is in doubt,” Hillary Clinton wrote last year, citing “Russia’s ongoing interference and Trump’s complete unwillingness to stop it or protect us.

It’s worth pondering what really would throw an election’s legitimacy into question. Directly compromising the...

 

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CrispinSartwell 43 won with hanging chads, not a Russian bot in site.

CrispinSartwell Nice irrelevant image. 🙄

CrispinSartwell Not the vote; an election’s legitimacy.

CrispinSartwell Because it didn’t

CrispinSartwell Wsj have no shame Get honor and admitTrump and gang were too close to Russia

CrispinSartwell ¡Good one lol!

CrispinSartwell False negative propaganda against Hillary was pervasive. It impacted people’s votes and made people not vote at all.

CrispinSartwell Just ill informed human lemmings who‘s education comes in the form of social media. Maybe leftist education isn’t all that helpful for a well informed functional citizenry?

CrispinSartwell Hello Question 1. Why do not anyone in America allow any interviewer or spokesman in the media in Iran? 2. Why does the American media not allow the re-start of this opposition to oppose the opposition opposition, especially Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Leader?

CrispinSartwell the real real fact and big problem of 2016 election is the infiltration of MuslimBrotherHood inside the democrats and until now their propaganda is present with Ilhan and Rashida and this is a great problem

CrispinSartwell Hacked voting machines in Florida did. There, fixed it for you!

CrispinSartwell Another junk opinion piece from WSJ.

CrispinSartwell If she is so popular and Russia stole it, then get her to run again and see if America votes her in without Russian help. That way we can see the truth. Embarrassing

CrispinSartwell Really, CrispinSartwell? How do you account for Trump losing by Ms of votes and the historic count changes in two largest WI cities, MI cities, OH cities, FL cities and PA cities statistically indefensible. If not russians, then GOP operatives?

CrispinSartwell Voter suppression & Gerrymandering is what won Trump & GW Bush the presidency interstatecrosschecklist

CrispinSartwell If only witches could cast votes the mad queen would be impeached by now

CrispinSartwell Says the lady who smashed her phones and bleach bit her computers.

CrispinSartwell Hillary was the absolute worst candidate in my lifetime. Period.

CrispinSartwell I've yet to see, hear, read about or meet the person admitting their vote was changed due to Russian Interference.

CrispinSartwell Always judge prejudice of article by pic

CrispinSartwell Hot take Crispin👎

CrispinSartwell If it didn't matter, why did everyone trumpet it to anyone who would listen, then?

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CrispinSartwell Minimizing the effect of a Russian misinformation campaign as a few memes is incredibly stupid.

CrispinSartwell There's no mental competency test for voting

CrispinSartwell r/wooosh

CrispinSartwell It’s amazing the Hiberbeast and the DNC paid for the fake Russian dossier had a server in her basement with classified documents and she can’t shut her mouth and go away this is probably the most arrogant and crooked POS on earth SHUT UP already

CrispinSartwell Remember that when the Democrats use a foreign government to help it win.

CrispinSartwell Wow, looks like hate speech to me.

CrispinSartwell Have to agree with op-ed. Let’s be honest, why would anyone w half a brain or even 10% let FB and Insta dictate their vote. FB posts are 95% foolishness. Rest of social not far behind

CrispinSartwell Propaganda :”information, of misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.” Google’s dictionary. Our politicians practice it daily and we believe them when it fits our biases. No doubt some were affected by Russian misinformation

CrispinSartwell They influenced those that voted to consider Donald Trump an acceptable potus. Stealing is it simplified. Let's ask the fbi though, direct access to a voting machine in Florida sounds a lot like theft.

CrispinSartwell How about Obama trying to interfere in Israeli elections with American tax payer money. These leftists are total hypocrites!

CrispinSartwell No, but dirty tricks, fake events and voter suppression did

CrispinSartwell We know that Hillary and the DNC colluded with the Russians with regard to the bogus dossier. The Ukrainians also helped Hillary. Where is the outrage?

CrispinSartwell Opinion: Being influenced by foreign adversarial superpower doesn’t cost citizens their right to dote on that adversaries agent and asset.

CrispinSartwell Now address the hacked emails, million dollar lobbying budget by the IRA, and persistent desire to have an entire government of a foreign county lobby for Trump to win. “Putin has won”, says Putins spokesman.

CrispinSartwell I've learned that the greater a person's sense of guilt, the greater his or her need to cast blame on others.

CrispinSartwell So meddling okay then. And cooperating with the Russians if Trump is okay too.

CrispinSartwell And your clearly editorial picture?

CrispinSartwell is not just the russian memes we have jewish israeli russian reporters telling people that when a foreing goberment dumps its spid ideas on america is ok because they cheated on the election and that doesnt matter according to the jewish israeli russian meme cheaters.

CrispinSartwell by the way is not just he russian memes china just stole a japanese f35 with all the israeli jewish russian technology the jewish israeli russian pentagon didnt want china to have

CrispinSartwell is not just the russian memes we have a pentagon infiltrating foreing technology and ignoring american technology example the israeli jewish russian war plane f22 and the traitor f35

CrispinSartwell is not juts the russian memes we have an army infiltrated by russian spies and it starts with the russian president donald trump

CrispinSartwell HRC = the WORST presidential candidate of my lifetime- she was lazy and entitled- two reason (many others) on why she lost.

CrispinSartwell is not just the russian memes we have a president controled by russian mentality

CrispinSartwell Please read the report or listen to it free on Audible. Russia spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on social media advertising. Fake accounts with over 700,000 followers. US Senators retweeted Russian propaganda. Pro-Trump rallies were organized by Russia.

CrispinSartwell Infinitesimal? I beg to differ. My friends, non college educated , are convinced Hillary is a serial murderess & her aide Huma aligned with ISIS . How? You Tube videos spreading mass hysteria. Legit sources to refute ? Fake news. Trump knowingly supports propaganda . Insidious.

CrispinSartwell Ooh, now do “false tobacco propaganda doesn’t influence teens to smoke!” The classics.

CrispinSartwell You’re stupid; of course we still get to vote, but lies and emotional manipulation by the dark side does/did make a difference and skewed the results undoubtedly. Or do you truly believe people can’t be influenced by these techniques?

CrispinSartwell Manafort giving polling data to Russia, Flynn exposed by the Steele dossier, two Russian wives...

CrispinSartwell Right, gerrymandering can

CrispinSartwell Many on the left of gotten so delusional that they think anyone who disagrees with them is now a Russian bot!

CrispinSartwell More rubbish from a Trump friendly media only interested in stocks and shares basically a gambling business

CrispinSartwell does facebook influence elections like twitter is used to promote books ? fair comparison hahahahahahaha. Twitter should buy bankrupt Barnes and Noble.

CrispinSartwell Hillary bought an illegal FBI wiretap on Trump Tower from Russians to meddle with election 2016 - her financials prove it.

CrispinSartwell WSJ = Propaganda Apologist

CrispinSartwell Willfully ignorant, purposeful misinterpretation of the issue. The propaganda didnt cost citizens their right to vote. Russians who attacked voter roles and voting systems cost citizens their right to vote.

CrispinSartwell Crispin Sartwell is a Russian tool and has Cheetos lips.

CrispinSartwell Influencing the election in favor of trump is not the Russian endgame. Trump is the means to sow discord in the US and divide us. The endgame for Russia.

CrispinSartwell But Twitter does not give the opportunity to criticize Trump with an article of at least 2000 letters, as if Twitter had colluded with Reps and their Facebook! It seems that the Reps bought Dems of Senate and Congress, in order to avoid Trump`s impeachment...

CrispinSartwell I guess we can just stop with all advertising since it does not sway people. Someone should notify Nike, McDonalds, Apple and others to quit wasting hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

CrispinSartwell Bullshit.

CrispinSartwell What’s the difference between foreign v local propaganda. Both parties do it the media does it interest groups do it. The problem is the ignorant uneducated uninformed voter that’s easily influenced. An ignorant society is dangerous and we keep dumbing down our citizens.

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CrispinSartwell Funny how the Trump campaign and the right wing talking heads were all promoting and linking to those stolen email dumps from wiki-leaks, because they thought it would sway voters. Yet now they want to claim there was no effect.

CrispinSartwell Traitors defending the indefensible. The party of Trump. Immoral

CrispinSartwell 2 simple answers. 1 any website has to have a direct link to the owner. 2 any Memes forward are watermarked to creator. Information is information. No matter the avenues.

CrispinSartwell If your hypothesis were true all of your advertising dollars would dry up as you pretend to proclaim they would not have any influence on us. 100,000 votes. Millions in Russian anti-Hillary/voter suppression posts. The OBVIOUS TRUTH: Russian influence won the election. DA.

CrispinSartwell They absolutely stole the election for DerangedDonald. I saw it in real time. Completely fake crap looking like official sources flooded Facebook. Most people sadly are brainwashed easily by that nonsense.

CrispinSartwell strawman

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CrispinSartwell So, companies waste billions on consumer advertising every year?

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CrispinSartwell Sure, while perpetuating misogyny with that photo, tell us more how 'campaigns' don't influence actual votes in an election. The TRE45ON campaign and the dozens of Democratic campaigns will beg to differ.

CrispinSartwell Thank you!!! This article is on point!

CrispinSartwell I guess what it comes down to is; Is foreign propaganda considered free speech? So are foreign persons or media outlets allowed to speak their mind?

CrispinSartwell Great talking point for propaganda.

CrispinSartwell Said the largest capitalist propaganda machine.

CrispinSartwell Jesus these comments. Take some personal responsibility you troglodytes. 'Bad pictures made me think things!' 'The media is evil and should only show me what I want to see in the way I want to see it!' 'Everything is someone else's fault!'

CrispinSartwell One trait of progressives is they always blame someone else when their candidates and/or proposals are rejected by the majority of Americans. It's always someone else's fault. Never their own candidate or ideas being rejected.

CrispinSartwell WSJ employs lots of enabling pigs. They should not.

CrispinSartwell I don't believe the social media fake stories/propaganda changed minds. It solidified how voters already felt. It succeeded in driving people further apart and revealed how stupid some people are in believing/sharing those outrageous stories. Newsflash: Memes don't contain truth.

CrispinSartwell True. But when media platforms spread disinformation, lies and hate, it influences a voter’s decision making process that would otherwise be informed by facts and truth. It’s disingenuous to pretend that brainwashing techniques aren’t a large part of the Soviet active measures.

CrispinSartwell Propaganda puked out by our own politicians influences far more people than foreign propaganda. People seem to like being told what to think

CrispinSartwell GovHowardDean

CrispinSartwell sfpelosi

CrispinSartwell sfpelosi media still not getting it

CrispinSartwell Families were divided and in some cases estranged as a result of that election, yet some still want to convince us that these candidates were similar enough for ppl to have their mind changed by a fake Russian account

CrispinSartwell And advertising doesn't take away people's choice in the products to buy. It sure as hell influences it, though, doesn't it? Jesus, never thought I'd see the day the WSJ printed that ads had no value. The right wing is a hell of a drug.

CrispinSartwell Images like this definitely contributed to the outcome of the election. Shame on for perpetuating the problem.

CrispinSartwell Thats why russian propaganda has been used for hundreds of years. Cause it doesnt work?

CrispinSartwell But it did cheat the electorate of the truth. Nice try BananaRepublican

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CrispinSartwell I’m not going to read this bs. The title alone tells that the writer is engaging in the same tactics as the Russians and is purposely being intellectually dishonest.

CrispinSartwell Has anyone presented factual evidence the Russians did anything beside spend about 150k in social media advertising?

CrispinSartwell Once you understand how easily brainwashed are Democratic voters, then yes, it certainly does.

CrispinSartwell It just influenced HOW they voted. Don’t need a whole op ed or story for to trealize that.

CrispinSartwell No kidding. The issue is propaganda, patriots.

CrispinSartwell I agree. Russian memes did NOT influence the voters in the 2016 election. Rather.... it was simply this photo.

CrispinSartwell Who writes this bullshit? Traitors, that’s who. Impeach Indict imprison.

CrispinSartwell Just to be clear, this is LITERALLY the image that the media and their people in the congress and IC say is being used to 'steal our democracy'

CrispinSartwell Think about how weak minded you have to be to think a post on Facebook “steals” an election.

CrispinSartwell What tripe.

CrispinSartwell IT MIGHT NOT STEAL YOUR VOTE BUT IT STEAL YOUR MIND.!! DAH

CrispinSartwell Hello, false Trump talking point 21332556.

CrispinSartwell The conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton pushed by Russia and the alt right absolutely influenced the outcome of the election

CrispinSartwell Democrats trying to prove that few Russian few Facebook ads has more influence on American voters than all American mainstream media.

CrispinSartwell And a video didn’t cause the Benghazi embassy to be overran.

CrispinSartwell Paging rtraister

CrispinSartwell But it does stop you from becoming President. Just ask Hillary...

CrispinSartwell Or else IIhan Omar couldn't vote... :) Watch my NON-PC 2 MIN comedy..

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